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DBMS > Datomic vs. GeoSpock vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. Infobright vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. GeoSpock vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. Infobright vs. SAP HANA

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NameDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Datastore  Xexclude from comparisonInfobright  Xexclude from comparisonSAP HANA  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilitySpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleAutomatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud PlatformHigh performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontendIn-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS infowith SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.45
Rank#145  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score3.69
Rank#71  Overall
#12  Document stores
Score0.79
Rank#207  Overall
#97  Relational DBMS
Score35.22
Rank#22  Overall
#15  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.datomic.comgeospock.comcloud.google.com/­datastoreignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdbwww.sap.com/­products/­hana.html
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comcloud.google.com/­datastore/­docshelp.sap.com/­hana
DeveloperCognitectGeoSpockGoogleIgnite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.SAP
Initial release2012200820052010
Current release1.0.7180, July 20242.0, September 20192.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infolimited edition freecommercialcommercialcommercial infoThe open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesnono infoalso available as a cloud based service
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJava, ClojureJava, JavascriptC
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMhostedhostedLinux
Windows
Appliance or cloud-service
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes, details hereyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonononono
Secondary indexesyestemporal, categoricalyesno infoKnowledge Grid Technology used insteadyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)SQL-like query language (GQL)yesyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBCgRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoTransaction Functionsnousing Google App EnginenoSQLScript, R
TriggersBy using transaction functionsnoCallbacks using the Google Apps Enginenoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersAutomatic shardingShardingnoneyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersMulti-source replication using PaxosSource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflownono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration infoStrong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infovia ReferenceProperties or Ancestor pathsnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID infoSerializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of TransactionsACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes inforecommended only for testing and developmentnonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users can be defined per tableAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard infoexploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilitiesyes

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